Directed by Alan Burke Productioncompany ABC Running time 1 hour Production company ABC | Produced by Les Weldon Director Alan Burke Screenplay George F. Kerr Cast Owen Weingott | |
Based on radio play by D'Arcy NilandRuth Park People also search for Pardon Miss Westcott, Giant Mine | ||
A Little South of Heaven is Australian live television play which aired in 1961 on ABC. It was based on a radio play by D'Arcy Niland and Ruth Park,. Duration was 60 minutes, in black-and-white. Produced by Alan Burke.
Contents
Plot
Set in Sydney. An Italian widow who has moved to Australia plans a marriage for her son Primo to an Italian, Serena, despite his affections for an Australian. However he sends Serena the photo of Primo's more handsome cousin Franki.
Cast
Radio Play
It was based on a radio play that had been performed in Australia and on the BBC in 1960. The BBC production starred Ina de la Haye and Robert Rietty.
Reception
The Sydney Morning Herald TV critic called it "rather stale fare" as the plot and characters were too predictable, adding that thematically the play "a warm-blooded extension of an Immigration Department pamphlet; bur its mainspring was a device as old as comedy and diplomacy... A neat, visually fluent, but also stodgily predictable, 60 minutes of viewing."